No one saw Krause being taken from the community or killed. "When stress + fear shall take their tollįor Sasha Krause's headstone, her family chose the words: “She did not walk alone.”
The last stanza in a poem she wrote titled “I do not walk alone” perhaps was about passing in old age, he said, but “it is amazingly apt to what seems to have happened to her." “She loved words: big words, funny words, poetry, classics and nursery stories - very word-oriented but not garrulous.” “She was always studying something, especially languages, which came almost naturally to her,” he said. She was a person of deep faith who found great joy in working with children and learning, her father told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Krause taught school for six years at a Grandview, Texas, Mennonite community before moving to Farmington less than two years before she died. “What it says is you've decided to follow the lord with your entire heart and with the tenets of the scripture would call for.” “What the scripture says is you turn from darkness to light,” Jim Gooch said. Jim Gooch testified that his son left the Mennonite faith and joined the military because he lacked a converted heart - words that prosecutor Ammon Barker drew on during closing arguments. Sean Clements, a spokesman for the air base, said proceedings would begin soon to discharge Gooch from the Air Force following his conviction. “The circumstantial evidence from my perspective was substantial, and the jury perhaps concluded that the circumstantial evidence was enough to outweigh those problems,” Griffen said Wednesday. He said Gooch was peaceful and volunteered information to a detective who interviewed him at Luke Air Force Base in metropolitan Phoenix, where he was stationed. Gooch's attorney, Bruce Griffen, tried to raise reasonable doubt among the jury by pointing to a lack of forensic evidence and to testimony about another car seen in the Mennonite community the day Krause went missing.
They declined to comment.Ĭoconino County Superior Court Judge Cathleen Brown Nichols separately convicted Gooch of a misdemeanor charge of theft, related to Krause's belongings. As he left the courtroom, he looked at two family members who sat behind him. He stood in a military stance, with one hand resting over the other behind his back. Gooch showed no emotion when the verdict was announced. They heard from Gooch's father, Jim, but they did not hear from the defendant. They heard from ballistics experts who disagreed on whether the bullet taken from her skull was fired from a. Jurors heard 10 days of testimony from those who knew Krause and investigated her disappearance. “Through some hard work, the community will be a safer place tonight," he said in a statement. Coconino County Attorney William Ring said his office will seek swift justice and thanked the jury for its service. Gooch, 22, faces up to life in prison at his sentencing, set for Nov. “We desire his complete repentance, that he would turn from darkness to light,” Kaufman said. Paul Kaufman said Wednesday his heart goes out to both families, and the community doesn't want to be vindictive toward Gooch. Air Force.ĭuring his trial, half the courtroom was filled at times with Krause's parents and others who shared in the conservative Christian faith, including the general manager of the Farmington publishing ministry where Krause worked. He later rejected the religion and joined the U.S. Gooch was raised in a Mennonite community in Wisconsin, where he worked on his family's dairy farm and went to school through eighth grade. Krause's wrists were bound, and she had been shot in the head. A camper collecting firewood spotted Krause face-down among pine needles near a national monument. Her body was found more than a month later in a forest clearing outside Flagstaff, Arizona, nearly 300 miles (480 kilometers) away. She had been gathering material for Sunday school. Krause, 27, was last seen in January 2020 at the church in her tight-knit Mennonite community outside Farmington, in northwestern New Mexico, where women wear head coverings and long dresses and men don plain, button-up shirts. Krause committed to the church, while Gooch did not. The two didn't know each other and lived hundreds of miles apart but shared an upbringing in the Mennonite religion. Air Force airman Mark Gooch guilty of kidnapping and first-degree murder in Krause's killing. On Wednesday, a jury in Arizona found U.S.
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